CLIENT CASE STUDY

Vodafone: Accelerating financial close

As one of the largest telecoms businesses in the world with more than 400 million customers, Vodafone has operations in more than 30 countries and network partnerships in 50 more.

Overview

As one of the largest telecoms businesses in the world with more than 400 million customers, Vodafone has operations in more than 30 countries and network partnerships in 50 more. In order to achieve global efficiencies across its organization, Vodafone implemented project EVO, the largest business and IT transformation in the company’s history, with a major component being the implementation of a SAP-based ERP platform.

THE APPROACH

Opportunity

Vodafone wanted to build on the success of EVO by accelerating its financial close processes for all
of its operating companies. This required finding a way to reduce manual interventions, speed up
the time to load data between the SAP Business Warehouse and the ECC system as well as the
means to spot and correct any errors before the data was loaded into the financial consolidation
system.

Solution

Accenture worked with Vodafone to implement SAP HANA – SAP’s in-memory computing platform
– to create a faster financial close process. Accenture’s Innovation Lab worked closely with the
Vodafone Customer Solution Adoption Team in a phased approach to demonstrating, testing and
rolling out the HANA solution. With test results clearly establishing the business case, the teams
worked to fully integrate HANA into the EVO landscape, create and build the data models and fully
test the solution before making it available to users across all local markets in Europe.

As system integrator, Accenture took responsibility for driving the project at all stages, from
gathering initial requirements to post-go live support.

Results

Implementing a HANA-based solution has significantly increased the speed of Vodafone’s financial
close processes. Data transfers now happen with a 96% time saving compared with the previous
solution, with data processing on HANA 1000X as fast as the standard business warehouse.

Overall, the solution has delivered a whole day’s saving each month. This gives Vodafone a far
more efficient reporting process that enables earlier decision-making, greater process control and
frees-up the Vodafone finance team to devote their time to more value-adding activities. The
success of the project has opened up possibilities for deploying HANA in other areas.

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